All Look Same

    HP's VP of Industrial Design on the similarities between HP's new ultrabooks and Apple's MacBooks: "If I put it on a black surface you'd go, 'Oh you didn't copy.' If I put it on a silver surface, 'Oh you're copying.' How can that be? You know, it's a change of color, there's no intent to mimic or to follow. What you have is a common theme of island style keyboard, use of silver, wedge design. So if I measure things on a macro level, well, you know, maybe you can judge it that way. I don't."

    Matt Buchanan
    by Matt Buchanan

    BuzzFeed Staff

    All Look Same

    engadget.com

    HP's VP of Industrial Design on the similarities between HP's new ultrabooks and Apple's MacBooks: "If I put it on a black surface you'd go, 'Oh you didn't copy.' If I put it on a silver surface, 'Oh you're copying.' How can that be? You know, it's a change of color, there's no intent to mimic or to follow. What you have is a common theme of island style keyboard, use of silver, wedge design. So if I measure things on a macro level, well, you know, maybe you can judge it that way. I don't."